FUJI X-Pro 1

My well hung & retracted, bullet proofed 2012 Fuji X-Pro 1. This chunk of scratched metal has seen people like Joan Baez, Ian Paice, deep purple and traveld to the UK, France & Morroco.....It's a hell of a rangefinder camera with optical & electronic viewfinder. Built for war correspondants 💥 

The X-Pro1 is the start of an all-new camera system, with a brand new mount and lenses. It's unashamedly targeted at a high-end audience, with analogue control dials and a small set of compact, large-aperture primes available at launch.

Key features are:

• Fujifilm-designed 16MP APS-C X-Trans CMOS sensor
• Novel colour filter array to suppress colour moiré, no optical low-pass filter
• EXR Processor Pro image processor
• Dual-magnification hybrid optical / electronic viewfinder
• Analogue dials for shutter speed and exposure compensation on top of camera
• All-new, fully electronic X lens mount; 17.7mm flange-to-sensor distance
• On-screen 'Q' control panel and redesigned tabbed menu system
• Focal-plane shutter, 1/4000 sec max speed
• 3.0" RGBW 1.23M dot LCD

The X-Pro1 uses a proprietary, Fujifilm-designed 16MP APS-C 'X-Trans CMOS' chip that eschews the conventional Bayer-pattern colour filter array in favour of a more complex layout. The result, claims Fujifilm, is a practical immunity to colour moiré, which means that an optical low-pass (anti-aliasing) filter is no longer required. This suggests that in terms of detail resolution the X-Pro1 should punch above its weight based on pixel count alone - indeed at launch Fujifilm claimed it should out-resolve the full frame 21MP Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

 If I'll ever get together the money, I'll buy the Fuji X-Pro2 and make it my only digital camera.....the X-Pro 2 is even better in low light, which is most important for me....

...meanwhile I still use this baby every day. I don't leave my house without it. I shoot concerts, street, travel, architecture and even portraits with the X-Pro 1. It must have done about 80.000 releases over the last 6 years and I hope It will make 80.000 more